Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), May 2014

by: yegg
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS: DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA)<p>If you&#x27;re an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we&#x27;re trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at <a href="https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dukgo.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;company&#x2F;hiring</a><p>We&#x27;re looking for people who are eventually interested to transition to full-time.<p>Right now we&#x27;re in need of some freelancing help in a number of areas including: 1) devops (using Chef); 2) backend (using Perl); 3) production design (using interface templates).

by: prontotype
text: Remote ok -- San Francisco, CA Bay Area preferred (contract, part time, chance for full time long term)<p><a href="http://prontotype.us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prontotype.us</a><p>Prontotype Inc. is looking for an iOS (with Android a huge plus) developer with UI&#x2F;UX expertise to join our core team and design, build, and iterate on web and mobile apps for idea-stage startup founders.<p>Prontotype was founded to bridge the gap from idea to MVP as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are rapidly taking on new clients while maintaining current projects, and we are looking for a creative, experienced, multi-talented developer to further scale. We ship features weekly on a variety of projects and iterate and refine often, so the ideal candidate will be quick on their feet in a brainstorm, write extensible clean code, and communicate very well -- we have our own development frameworks that change as product needs evolve so interfacing well with us is an absolute must.<p>You will first be hired on a contract basis for a specific project. If we work well together there is opportunity for more down the road. We generate A LOT of work and can offer varied and exciting problem solving opportunities (think 2-5 simultaneous startup ideas) as time goes on -- Prontotype deals with new ideas almost every day! There is also a possibility for equity in some of our projects down the road depending on how things go.<p>Send inquiries to jobs@prontotype.us and tell us about yourself. Please include links or a portfolio of projects you have worked on (we are most impressed with apps you have shipped now on the App Store, frameworks you have made, pet projects you are proud of... things that show what you love to build!).

by: SteveMorin
text: Philadelphia or Remote with weekly travel to Philadelphia -Data Architect for the Big Data and Data Science Team . Taking fulltime and consulting candidates. We have internal facing and client facing positions on the team, so there is a lot of opportunities. We are implementing a new analytics platform. If your interested let me know. I would love to talk to you more about the role.
Data Architect - Big Data Platform and Science Team - Relevant Experience<p><pre><code>    - Hadoop
    - Data Modeling
    - Data Warehousing
    - DBA Experience
    - Hive
    - ETL Design
    - Schema Design
    - Data Dictionary Creation
    - Information Architecture 
    - Bonus: Impala, Drill, Spark
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Software Engineer - BigData Analytics Platform Team<p><pre><code>    - Hadoop 2.0 
    - Hive
    - Yarn
    - Spark
    - Kafka
    - Ansible
</code></pre>
Data Scientists &amp; Data Analysts - Data Science<p><pre><code>    - MapReduce 2
    - Tableau
    - Hive
    - Sas
    - R
</code></pre>
Email: steve@demandcube.com

by: seekingdev_00
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Full-time &#x2F; Part-time Contract position for a very good full-stack Rails developer<p>Responsibilities: Need to add some user functionality and a full Admin panel (including simple content management for static pages) to an existing Rails web app. Preferably the developer will then provide ongoing maintenance and support on a very part-time basis after the main project is complete - perhaps 5 hours per week. The code is in very good shape with good test coverage.<p>Location: remote - preferably U.S. or Canada, but would consider UK, Spain, &amp; South America.<p>We&#x27;re seeking an experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails developer, or very small team to take on a challenging project.<p>Must:
- Have at least 3 years solid Rails experience developing web apps.
- Be able to start within a couple weeks.<p>Please include your CV, links to past projects you had a very significant part in developing that are still live, and a link to your Linkedin profile if you have one.<p>[railswebappproject] a.t. g-m-a-i-l

by: soneca
text: Remote<p>Need to have working experience with:<p>Node.js + Express<p>Sequelize + MySQL<p>Amazon AWS - Elastic Beanstalk (worker &amp; web server) + SQS (Simple Queue Service) + SES (Simple Email Service)<p>I am founding a startup in Brazil that provides a system for restaurants to create a loyalty program through Facebook’s checkin feature. Basically it is a Facebook App that the end user sign up and we monitor their check-ins, creating vouchers so they can claim small prizes on the restaurants.<p>A developer created the MVP and will continue to manage the development (as CTO), but he can no longer work as many hours as necessary. So we decided to hire a freelancer to create all the code (from small front-end changes, to whole new features, and all in between).<p>We want to hire someone per hour, giving at first small projects, then, with time and trust, bigger tasks. This is intendend to be a longtime professional relationship. As we are an unfunded startup, we can&#x27;t afford expensive rates.<p>email at profile

by: andrewljohnson
text: Remote OK, Berkeley, CA<p>Our team needs another iOS developer - our ideal is someone who works with us first on contract, and later full-time.<p>We are a 6-person software studio, with a specialty in high-performance, offline maps. We have been making iPhone apps since 2009. Our most well-known app, Gaia GPS, is the quintessential app for the outdoors, and 3 of our apps are currently being featured by Apple.<p>To qualify for this position, you need to be able to demonstrate you excel at iOS development. You will need to pass a technical interview, and either provide code samples or walk us through your role in other iOS projects.<p>Contact jobs@gaiagps.com and see: <a href="http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/54415/technical-software-studio-seeks-ios-developer-gaia-gps?a=14mCdxtFm&amp;searchTerm=maps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;54415&#x2F;technical-softwa...</a>

by: engined
text: Boston&#x2F;Cambridge, MA<p>Looking for a data scientist &#x2F; developer to help in analyzing, and building some visuals around a pretty interesting dataset (65,000+ court cases and their associated data -- judges, parties, attorneys, dockets, etc.). This is early stage, experimental, a bit greenfield, and so far a lot of fun. There&#x27;s a decent amount of statistical correlation to figure out, and also potential for some textual analysis to be done.<p>The intent is to eventually convert some of the more interesting analyses into visuals for presentation online.<p>Dataset currently resides in Postgres and the language of choice is Python (so Pandas, NumPy, NLTK (maybe?),etc.)<p>I&#x27;d prefer someone local (Cambridge) so we can do some work in tandem, but if remote is the only possibility and there&#x27;s a good case for it, willing to try.<p>If interested, email me at info@docketdaily.com<p>[EDIT] Fixed email address to a working one<p>Good luck out there!

by: snide
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS: DESIGN &#x2F; FRONTEND<p>Remote work.<p>We&#x27;re nearing the launch of Webhook.com, a backendless CMS targeted at designers, front-end developers and anyone who wants an easy to use, easy to deploy CMS system.<p>We&#x27;d like to get a couple prebuilt themes out for when we launch in late June. Themes can be for anything, not just blogs. You must be able to code your own designs in CSS&#x2F;HTML. We use Swig JS (similar to Django) for our templating language. Your work will be released open-source and available free to anyone who wants to use it.<p>Please check over our site and documentation, then send an email to dave@webhook.com if you&#x27;re interested.<p>We&#x27;re also in the middle of a successful Kickstarter.<p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1749618880/webhook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1749618880&#x2F;webhook</a>

by: genedd
text: Cambridge, MA, USA<p>We&#x27;re doing some app analysis&#x2F;forensics by looking at source code provided to us, and could use some help doing so.<p>Mobile app software research
Role: Examine source code for a small number of mobile applications and develop an understanding of how they work.  Develop high level diagrams and documents describing the logic flow of certain aspects of the applications.<p>Requirements: a computer science degree (or equivalent experience) with at least a 3-5 years of experience developing mobile apps on Android, iOS (and if possible Windows Phone).  Need to commit to 20-40 hours of work per week during May and 5-10 hours per week through August.  Work needs to be performed on-site at our office in Cambridge given the sensitivity of the code base.<p>email gene@endeavourpartners.net for more info

by: jxf
text: (Remote): R, RUBY, STATISTICS<p>We&#x27;re looking for someone to help out with a small R-to-Ruby translation for 2 scripts (&lt; 100 lines each).<p>Full details, sample dataset and results, and the R scripts are located here:<p><a href="http://goo.gl/9Gi37o" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;9Gi37o</a>

by: foenix
text: — Zaniac — Remote or Salt Lake City, UT<p>We are an after-school education startup seeking to help kids get excited about math and other STEM fields. We have course programs for K-8 students ranging from Minecraft to Lego Robotics.<p>We need developers who came to development in order to scratch an itch. We need an artist who thinks HTML&#x2F;CSS3&#x2F;JS is just another medium. We need a full-stack engineer who believes that web apps can manage knowledge.<p>Our technologies include: Django, Linux, AWS, and Sass. 
Check out our website at: <a href="https://www.zaniaclearning.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zaniaclearning.com&#x2F;</a><p>If you feel like any of these skills match your knowledge, please feel free to drop me us a line: careers@zaneprep.com

by: codegeek
text: (Anywhere in the world but US East Coast preferred)<p>Need Front end designer&#x2F;dev who can design and also produce Clean HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS based on the design. I don&#x27;t need PSDs necessarily. Final result must of course be fully responsive.<p>My project is in a very early stage where I am coming up with mockups and wireframes based on what I think they should look like. Bonus points for you if you can give me
ideas on how to do it better.<p>Please have something to show me when you contact. I don&#x27;t care if it is your website, github, dribble, behance whatever. Just have something to show.<p>Contact yashchandra@treftsystems.com with subject &quot;HN Design&quot; and I promise to write back whether we work together or not.

by: rcraft
text: Remote &#x2F; Denver, CO<p><a href="http://GroupTweet.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;GroupTweet.com&#x2F;</a> is looking for a PHP&#x2F;full-stack developer, ideally with Twitter API experience.<p>GroupTweet is changing the way people and organizations use Twitter by making it simple to create collaborative group Twitter accounts. Our paid users range from global news &amp; media organizations and Fortune 500 companies, to small classrooms and high school sports teams.<p>We have Twitter’s seal of approval and work with their certified products team.<p>With Twitter’s newfound focus on improving the private messaging experience within their apps, we know this is going to be an exciting time for our platform.<p>If interested email work@grouptweet.com

by: d0m
text: (Contract, Part-Time or Full-time).<p>Full-stack developer and web designer. (REMOTE, we are based in Montreal and Mountain-View)<p>Listrunner, <a href="http://www.listrunnerapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.listrunnerapp.com</a>.<p>Believe it or not, doctors still use paper to manage their team and their patients. Yes they have $1B EMR, but the day-to-day management stuff is still all done on paper. On top of being highly inefficient, it&#x27;s unsafe and it&#x27;s killing people. (Most medical errors are due to miscommunication)<p>Listrunner is a secure mobile app replacing those paper, napkins and post-it notes. Think of it as a synchronized todo list and secure communication tool for doctors.<p>We&#x27;ve got amazing traction. Residents and doctors love it, we&#x27;ve just raised a good seed round to move very fast, and we just joined the best possible accelerator.<p>1. Full-Stack Developer<p>We use Angular, Firebase, Phonegap and node.js. We&#x27;re looking for a very good full-stack developer to join our small team. You&#x27;ll be working with us on a super clean and high quality codebase.<p><pre><code>   - You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
   - Passionate about new technologies, happy to learn new ones.
   - Expert in Javascript, bonus if experience with Firebase or Angular.
   - Desire to work on a meaningful and challenging problem.
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2. Web designer<p>Doctors are so tired of ugly and non-intuitive tools.. That&#x27;s where you jump in.<p><pre><code>   - You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
   - Passionate about web and mobile design. You know all the latest trends and can&#x27;t
     wait to put your knowledge and experience into solving a meaningful problem.
   - Expert in html&#x2F;css.
   - Bonus if experience with Javascript and Photoshop.
</code></pre>
Contact me directly: phzbox at gmail, please write &quot;HN Job&quot; as subject.<p>Also, feel free to contact me if you think you&#x27;re a good fit even if you don&#x27;t exactly match what I described.

by: monejobs
text: Monetate (Remote or Conshohocken, PA)<p>Two projects:<p>1) Build Engineer<p>Looking for help making machine images (for both local VMs and AWS) build in less than 10 minutes, while also moving them from in-house tools to Packer.  The application is based on Linux, MySQL, Python, nginx, tomcat, and haproxy.<p>You will have experience understanding and improving similar machine image builds.<p>2) Continuous Integration<p>Integrate with GitHub to run our test suite on commit to master, and every outstanding PR to master.  Accelerate the pace of testing by a full order of magnitude, so we can move faster, while breaking fewer things.  We currently use Jenkins.<p>You will have experience making dramatic improvements to complex continuous integration suites.<p>Contact Kevin at kway@monetate.com

by: tzm
text: &#x2F; Cofounder<p>Partsline.com <a href="http://partsline.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsline.com</a> (Mountain View, CA)
Looking for front end designer&#x2F;dev who can finish building out the consumer web app and admin panels and help launch the site.  Equity is available and possibly a cofounder position.<p>I built the service and am currently working on the mobile app and backend communication stack.  There are over 650,000 parts requests in the system and currently receives approx 300 &#x2F; day.  I plan to raise a small round.<p>Email address is located in my handle.

by: _wesley_
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - (SF or Remote)<p>We&#x27;re Gustin, a premium crowdsourced menswear brand.  Looking to bring on another full stack rails engineer for a consistent 10 hours&#x2F;week of feature development on our platform.<p>Design &#x2F; UX &#x2F; analytics experience a plus. We&#x27;d prefer to pay more for an experienced engineer who will do things right the first time.<p>Email us at team@weargustin.com to chat.<p><a href="http://www.weargustin.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weargustin.com</a>

by: _acme
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Located in Chicago, but remote work is fine. I&#x27;m looking for someone to implement mouse chords in Microsoft Word for cut&#x2F;copy&#x2F;paste similar to Rob Pike&#x27;s Plan 9 acme text editor (the method is up to you -- VBA add-in, system-wide application, etc.) See <a href="http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/acme" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.cat-v.org&#x2F;plan_9&#x2F;1&#x2F;acme</a>.<p>Contact bv at tuffmail dot com.

by: _acme
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Located in Chicago, but remote work is fine. I&#x27;m looking for someone to modify Brackets&#x2F;CodeMirror (for at least Mac and maybe Windows) to create a clone of the RISC OS 3 !Edit simple text editor -- see <a href="http://riscos.com/support/users/userguide3/book2b/d_6.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;riscos.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;users&#x2F;userguide3&#x2F;book2b&#x2F;d_6.html</a>.<p>Contact bv at tuffmail dot com.

by: amac
text: Remote.<p>PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.<p>MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)<p>SKILLS: iOS development. (objective-c, c++, cocoa etc) The project is called &#x27;Octopus&#x27; and our temporary website is at octopus.org.
My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I&#x27;ll try to get back to you.

by: SteveMorin
text: Philadelphia PA, Looking for an person with consulting for 2 to 4 week consulting project that is business process, systems and information architecture modeling.  This is a full-time role for these few weeks.  To start in 1 week.<p><pre><code>  - Information Architecture
  - Business Process Modeling
  - Consulting Experience
</code></pre>
If interested email me at steve@demandcube.com

by: frankdenbow
text: Remote ok, based out of NYC<p>Looking for Front end developer to create Tshirt designer tool<p>- File upload for artwork with moving, scaling
- Identifying distinct colors 
- Price calculation
- Output high fidelity mockup<p>StartupThreads (<a href="https://www.startupthreads.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startupthreads.com</a>) - Easiest way to print &amp; ship swag for companies<p>Email: frank@startupthreads.com

by: samsolomon
text: Mobile, AL - Remote OK<p>I&#x27;m an interactive producer for Red Square Gaming, an ad agency for casinos. We&#x27;re on the look out for a few Frontend and Wordpress freelancers to partner with. You can see our work at <a href="http://redsquaregaming.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;redsquaregaming.com&#x2F;</a><p>If your interested email me sam.solomon (at) redsquaregaming.com

by: mryan
text: Remote<p>I am looking for sysadmins and DevOps freelancers to help out on some upcoming projects. I am seeking expertise in:<p>- AWS<p>- Puppet<p>- Vagrant&#x2F;Packer<p>- Python<p>If this matches your skill set and you are looking for some interesting projects to work on, email me on mike@epitech.nl and let me know a bit about yourself, your experience and your rates.

by: late2part
text: Postgres&#x2F;Python - REMOTE OK - Sunnyvale, CA Preferred<p>Seeking freelancer to help with some optimizations in the way our python code talks with postgres.  Combination coding&#x2F;database work.  Please mail ahannan@arubanetworks.com.<p>Thanks!

by: Veilkrand
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>San Francisco branch of an international media company is looking for an expert Drupal backend developer. Experience on apps and API development a plus.<p>- Expertise on backend Drupal7 development.<p>- PHP&#x2F;MySQL<p>- REST API development

by: armored
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Looking for a freedom loving developer to pitch in on a project with a moral imperative.  Remote ok.<p>Node.js, JavaScript, Python, C.  Cryptography, API, frontend.